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Author Widom, J.
Title A Denotational Semantics for the Starburst Production Rule Language
Date of publication 1992
Citation J. Widom: A Denotational Semantics for the Starburst Production Rule Language. Appeared in SIGMOD Record, Sep. 1992; published while at IBM Almaden
Language English
Project Database Group
Type Conference or Journal Paper
Subject group Computer Science
Abstract Researchers often complain that the behavior of database production rules is diffcult to reason about and understand, due in part to the lack of formal declarative semantics. It has even been claimed that database production rule languages inherently cannot be given declarative semantics, in contrast to, e.g., deductive database rule languages. In this short paper we dispute this claim by giving a denotational semantics for the Starburst database production rule language.
Keywords active database, formal semantics
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